Cognition, Emotion, and Aesthetics in Contemporary Serial Television

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Edited by Ted Nannicelli and Héctor J. Pérez

Type

Studies

Subject

Genre > TV Series

Keywords

TV Series, emotions, aesthetics, psychology

Publishing date

2023

Publisher

Routledge

Collection

Routledge Advances in Television Studies

1st publishing

2021

Language

English

Relative size

Physical desc.

Paperback • 332 pages
6 x 9 ¼ inches (15.5 x 23.5 cm)

ISBN

978-1-032-03716-5

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Book Presentation:
This book posits an interconnection between the ways in which contemporary television serials cue cognitive operations, solicit emotional responses, and elicit aesthetic appreciation.

The chapters explore a number of questions including: How do the particularities of form and style in contemporary serial television engage us cognitively, emotionally, and aesthetically? How do they foster cognitive and emotional effects such as feeling suspense, anticipation, surprise, satisfaction, and disappointment? Why and how do we value some serials while disliking others? What is it about the particularities of serial television form and style, in conjunction with our common cognitive, emotional, and aesthetic capacities, that accounts for serial television’s cognitive, socio-political, and aesthetic value and its current ubiquity in popular culture?

This book will appeal to postgraduates and scholars working in television studies as well as film studies, cognitive media theory, media psychology, and the philosophy of art.

About the authors:
Ted Nannicelli is Senior Lecturer in Film and Television Studies at The University of Queensland. He is editor of Projections: The Journal for Movies and Mind,co-editor of Cognitive Media Theory (2014), and author of Appreciating the Art of Television: A Philosophical Perspective.Héctor J. Pérez is Associate Professor of Audiovisual Narrative at the Universitat Politècnica de València. He has published widely in scientific journals such as Projections, Culture & Psychology, Aisthesis, and L’Atalante. He is editor of SERIES, International Journal of TV Serial Narratives.

See the publisher website: Routledge